Hohner 1896 Marine Band Harmonica  

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Hohner

A well-known, precisely crafted, historic harmonica with a pearwood comb and an amazing tone.

The Hohner 1896 Marine Band Harmonica follows in has been played by world-famous musicians like John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Little Walter, and Paul Butterfield. The Hohner Marine Band is a number-one choice among top professionals and one of the most recognizable harmonicas all over the world. Known for its full tone, wood comb, and its patented cover plates, the Marine Band harmonica was there when harmonica blues was born. The Marine Band harp is a result over 100 years of Hohner German craftsmanship.

Choose your desired key!

Hohner is a family company founded in 1857 in Trossingen, Germany by Matthias Hohner. Hand-made quality and close attention to detail has set Hohner apart from the beginning. A top leading brand in harmonicas, Hohner harps are distributed worldwide. Hohner harmonicas are played on the street by buskers, in intimate nightclubs, on festival stages, and even in Carnegie Hall. Despite a diverse harmonica line used in music from country to classical genres, the most famous Hohner harmonicas are their simple, 10-hole diatonics used frequently by blues, rock, country, and folk musicians.

Features

  • 10-hole diatonic
  • Standard (Richter) tuning
  • Reeds: 20
  • Reedplates: Brass; 0.9 mm
  • Pearwood comb
  • Length: 10cm
  • Hohner harmonicas feature:
  • Improved reed profiles to increase reed life by over 200%
  • Precision die punches to ensure reed plates with unparalleled air tightness
  • Improved tuning accuracy (through investment in innovative new tools)
  • Extremely stable stainless steel covers that won't tarnish and are easy to clean
  • Dynamic range and highest volume of most any commercially made harmonica
  • Super-fast response at all volume levels
  • Easily adjustability for overblows
  • A unique Hohner sound that is a tone benchmark for blues, folk, and rock

Play the Marine Band harmonica and be a part of history when you order today.

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Excellent Harp

| Review By: Jeremiah Underwood | 4 weeks, 7 hours ago

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I'm brand new to harp playing.  After research I chose this one in the key of C. I understand what other reviewers meant about cutting into your lip.   There is an edge on the marine band that does this, I don't see much of a way around it.  Other than that, it's a great sounding instrument. 

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Marine Blues

| Review By: Manuel Diaz | 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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I still consider myself a beginner at the harmonica (though I do admit I can jam pretty damn well) I only own 3 harmonicas, including the marine.

 

I own a Hohner Blues harp, the pro harp (black one), and of course, the marine and I must say that the marine is by far my favorite. I do wish it wouldn't cut my lips as much...

 

Compared to those two, the marine has a richer sound. And it is louder, to my ears anyway.

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upper intermediatte
Style of music you play:
blues/folk
Where you live:
Schrute Farms

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blues harp

| Review By: Doug Viant | 5 months, 2 days ago

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do you, by any chance, sell musical talent?

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bad
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somewhere over the rainbow

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Great Sounding Harmonica

| Review By: Alex K. | 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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This harmonica has a lovely, warm and woody sound.

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I'm a begginer and I tried previously buying like a 10-pack of cheap harmonicas, and the sound of this one just blows away the cheap ones. You're much better off buying one of these harmonicas than buying 10 cheap ones.

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Rockabobby
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San Diego

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Marine Band harmonicas

| Review By: Bob-QdETb | 9 months, 3 days ago

7 people out of 7 found this review helpful

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There is no doubt--none whatsoever--that a Marine Band harmonica is one of the best sounding harmonicas in the world. The bluesy tone of the wood comb cant be beat. I certainly have a bunch of them. But dont let any new harp players on here be fooled. There are significant problems to playing a Marine Band. I also contend that quality control at the Hohner factory is poor. MB harps come out all different, you never know what you are going to get. As for problems, here are what I've experienced with Marine Bands:

 

  1) the wooden comb warps, that is the holes shift. Holes you play a lot tend to "move around." Your 4 hole will open up wider, thus "pinching" the 3 and 5, making them smaller and harder to play.

 

  2) the wooden comb swells out when it gets moist with the moisture of your lips. If you play and MB for even 30 or 40 minutes, the wooden comb will bulge out and rip your lips up while you play. I find the Special 20 much easier to play, and to solo on, than an MB. The plastic comb of the Special 20 wont warp or swell.

 

  3) the MB has those nasty metal rails along the top and bottom of the comb, again rendering it hard to solo.

 

   Some guys I know love Marine Band harps and would never give them up. Fine. Again, these are fantastic sounding harps, but with so many other choices on the market, I dont usually buy MBs any more. Special 20s are my favorite, Golden Melody's are terrific, and best of all, the Suzuki Manji

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4 years as a self-taught harmonica player
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rock and blues
Where you live:
New Jersey

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